Matt Bruenig

I don't claim these are novel thoughts, but they are things I want to jot down mostly so I can revisit them later.

One of Matt Yglesias's defining political positions is that Democrats should be more moderate in order to attract more votes.

It's been a while since I posted about my personal use of AI.

As I explain in this video, this is what I have been trying to accomplish for the last 2+ years.

I produced this YouTube video tonight about a topic that has irritated me for a while, which is the discourse around so-called "AI agents."

I released a book today called The National Labor Relations Book, which you can buy over at NLRBResearch.com for $10 (click here).

I am a weird social position when it comes to the discourse over large language models or artificial intelligence more generally.

It's not surprising that Geoff Shullenberger doesn't know very much about me.

In high school and college, I became very interested in economic philosophy, specifically theories of distributive justice that seek to establish criteria for determining whether a particular distribution of resources within a society is just.

The discourse is full of argument but mostly devoid of argumentation theory.

Societies have grappled with concerns over low or declining fertility since as far back as Ancient Rome.

Matt Yglesias has a piece at Slow Boring where he criticizes the idea that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), enacted by Clinton, is a major driver of working class disaffection with the Democratic party.

In 2021, I had solar panels installed on my roof.

For me, this election differed from the last two in that my particular policy interests — a universalist welfare state, mass unionization, and socialization of wealth — were absent.

Ten days ago, Kamala Harris released her Lowering Costs Agenda (LCA), a five-page list of various policy proposals that all ostensibly relate back to lowering prices.

Joe Biden put up an issues page on his campaign website late last month.

The prevailing consensus in the economics literature is that women suffer a significant earnings penalty after they have children.

Yale announced today that it will reinstate a requirement that applicants to the school submit scores from a standardized college admissions exam.

Brad Wilcox is an amusing situation where he's trying to promote a new book he wrote about marriage right after Melissa Kearney released a basically identical book and exhausted all of the media attention available for such things.

Matt Yglesias has a piece at Slow Boring about the attitudinal differences between socialists and anarchists.

Over the last 10 years or so, I have filed a number of high-profile unfair labor practice charges against coercive statements, with many of those statements being made on Twitter.

Today, I personally filed an unfair labor practice charge against Cumulus Media, Inc.

Matt Yglesias has a piece titled Against Murder-Suicide Politics where he criticizes the left for threatening or actually withholding electoral support from Democrats who do not pursue their desired policies.

I’ve written three times before on the question of how much the Dobbs decision, which gave states the power to tighten abortion laws, has actually reduced abortion in the US (I, II, III).

Noah Smith wrote a piece at his newsletter (which I generally find interesting) titled "Western leftists have lost the plot" where he collects a handful of extreme reactions to the recent Hamas attack and then pivots to psychoanalyzing why the Left has re…

When you are in the discourse for as long as I have been, you start to spot certain patterns of discursive behavior.

Ross Douthat had a response to my response to the various promotional pieces about Melissa Kearney's new book.

Melissa Kearney is promoting a book where she dares to speak a truth that nobody else is brave enough to say: marriage and two-parent families are very good.

It seems like everyone in the country is talking about this song from Oliver Anthony.

Late last year, I laid out in a very clear way why universal benefits cost less than means-tested benefits and why people who think otherwise are simply getting mixed up in accounting definitions rather than dealing with economic realities.